Chain-grip-attaching device.



Patented Emy i4, 1.914.

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@Fhlil WALTER B. LASHAR, GF BRIDGEPOR'I, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNDR' TO WERD CHAIN TIRE GRIP COMPANY, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OIF NEW YORK.

CHAIN-GRIP-ATTACHING DEVICE.

Patented July M, 19de.

Application tiled May 28, 1913, Serial No. 770,287. Renewed June 3, 1914. Serial No. 842,794.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER B. LASHAR, of Bridgeport, Fairfield county, Connecticut, have made a certain new and useful Invention Relating to Chain-Grip-Attaching Devices, of which the following is a specification, taken in connection with the accom panying drawing, which forms part of the same. l

This invention relates especially to temporary attaching devices for use in more readily applying to automobile tires chain grips of the Parsons-Weed type.

The attaching device preferably comprises two tlexiblecables or attacher members having at one or both ends attac-her hooks or grips to coperate with the side chains and preferably narrow or small enough so as to be threaded through one or more of the links of the side chains to more effectively maintain their alinement.

In the accompanying drawing showing in a somewhat diagrammatic wayr anillustrative embodiment of this invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of an automobile wheel to which a Parsons type chain grip has been temporarily secured by attaching devices. Fig. 2 shows a cable attacher; and Fig.. 3 is a det-ail side view showing another arrangement of the attacher in effecting a temporary connection between the grip members.

As diagrammatically illustrated in the drawing the vcross chains 2 and connected side chains 3 of the tire grip may be arranged on the pneumatic orother resilient tire 1 of the automobile in the usual way and itis in many cases convenient to lay the grip over the wheel so that its ends are adja-A cent the bottom of the wheel where they can be conveniently brought toward each other.

without special appliances so as to bring the grip into approximately its proper position on the wheel. As shown in Fig. 1, the end links, such as lt, of the side chains may thus be brought nearly up to the connector device or hook members 4, 5 on the other ends of these side chains, although in some instances it is hardly possible to bring these parts as close together in the first instance as indicated in the drawings, especially if the wheel is more or less embedded in sand or other soft material in the road.

In order to prevent delay and difficulty in attaching the grip itis quite desirable to use a exible attacher-Which can be threaded vit to get out of ditlicult situations.

through some of the side chain links at. least to temporarily connect the ends of each side chain 'so that the grip can be' used at once without waiting to get it in final adjusted position. A desirable attacher for this pu'rpose may as indicated in Fig. Q comprise an attacher member l2 of strong cord, or of twisted or woven wire cable having considerable strength and resiliency and also sulicient flexibility for this purpose. Any suitable attacher grips may be secured at one or both ends of the flexible cable or other attacher member to engage or cooperate with suitable portions of the side chains or other parts-of the tire grip and hold them in position with sufficient security to allow the temporary operation of the grip. These attacher grips may be inthe form of rigid metallic hooks and may with advantage comprise the narrow sockets l0 in which the ends 11 of the cable or flexible member l2 are secured in any desired way, the shanks T of these hooks being quite narrow as shown in connection with the hook 8 in Fig. 2, so that one or more of the hook ends 9 may be readily threaded through the links G of the side chains.

Fig. l shows one convenient form of attachment in which the grip or hook 7 has its point 9 hooked into one of the links of the side chain 3, the iiexible attacher cable 12 being threaded through adjacent links sutii ciently to prevent their getting out of lateral alinement. Then the connector is preferably passed through one of the links on the other end of this side chain such as the end link 1G thereof after which the end of this hook-8 may', if desired, be brought back and hooked into a link of the same end of the side chain which is engaged by the other hook. ln this way the grip isfheld on the tire to sufficiently increase vthe traction of the vehicle to enable The normal operation of the vehicle also tends to bring'the chain grip held by the attacher into proper adjustment around the various parts of the 'tire and to enable the regular connector' hooks to -be fastened into the proper linksv of the other end of the side chains, as for instance, when this part of the tire grip is on the side or top of .the Wheel, so that thetemporary attachers may 'then be disengaged from the grip. Fig. 3 shows another manner of using theselexible temporary attachers in Which the end 9 sired to be secured by Letters Patent is set of the hook 7 I on the iexible attacher' is hooked into one of the links 6 of the side chain 3 and then the cable threaded through 'the adjacent links of this side chain and lthrough the links adjacent the other "end of this side chain, so that the end 9 of the other hook 8 of this attacher may be hooked into a link 6 thereof and bringr the en ds of this side chain together to the extent desired. It is of course understood that the ends of both the side chains are connected in the lirst instance the same Way, such as indicated which can be conveniently done in the manner described Without the necessity of jack *ing up the Wheel or using otherspccial de vices to bring the tread chains under the operation of the Wheel in direct engagement with the ground.

This invention has been described in connection with a number ofillustrative embodiments, forms, proportions, parts, materia-ls and arrangements, to the details of Which disclosure the invention is not of course to be limited, since l 'What is claimed as-new and what is deforth' in the appended claims.

l. The combination with a vehicle Wheel having a resilient tire, of a tire grip having tread chains and cooperating side chains each provided With connectors to connect their ends and. temporary attaching device for the ends ot each of said side chains coni- "ng a flexible attacher cable and nar.' iw .rigid hook.: permanently connected to lseth ends of said cable, said hooks being hooked into links on one end of said side chains and said cable being threaded through links adjacent both ends of 'said side chains to maintain substantial alinement thereof.

2. The combination With a vehicle Wheel having a resilient tire, of a tire grip having tread members and cooperating side me1nbers each provided With connectors to connect their ends and a temporary attachingr device for the ends of each or' said side mem` bers comprising a liexible attacher and attacher grips permanently connected to both Aends thereof, the attacher grips engaging in said side members and said attacher being' threaded through portions of said side ineinbers adjacent their ends to maintain substantial alinenient thereof.

3. The combination with a vehicle Wheel having a resilient tire, of atire grip having tread chains and cooperating side chains each provided with connectors to connect their ends and temporary attaching device i ELLA F. GANLEY, CATHERINE I. CAI-mom... 

